LIST OF VESSELS BUILT IN 1843. - Having prepared our annual list of new vessels put in commission on this and the other upper lakes, we present it to show the increase in that branch of business. A fleet of sixty-five substantial and well found brigs and schooners have been added to the marine on the lakes during a period of three seasons, at an expense of half a million, without an outlay of a single dollar from Congress toward the construction of lake commerce. During that time there ahs been built and put in service, ten of the largest and most costly steamers afloat in the United States. Besides the vessels embraced in the annexed table we know of several which have been rebuilt, enlarged and beautified at a considerable expense. The Porter, which was converted into a propeller, cost $3,000 for such improvement. The Sandusky was rebuilt as a barque, at a similar expense. The steamer Wisconsin was enlarged some 400 tons at a heavy outlay, and very many of the sail vessel made their appearance here in the spring much enlarged and improved. The vessels which were built and put into commission this season are embraced in the annexed table.

Name

Class

Where Built

Tons

Cost

Nile

steamer

Detroit

650

$30,000

Sampson

propeller

Perrysburgh

250

15,000

Emigrant

"

Cleveland

275

15,000

Hercules

"

Buffalo

275

15,000

Independence

"

Chicago

275

15,000

E. H. Scott

brig

St. Joseph

200

8,000

St. Louis

"

Kalamazoo

200

8,000

Windham

schooner

Ashtabula

270

8,000

Velocity

"

Buffalo

162

7,000

Roanoke

"

Euclid

161

7,000

Ocean

"

Cleveland

121

5,000

Swan

"

"

41

2,000

Birmingham

"

Vermillion

133

6,000

Trenton

"

Charleston

133

5,500

Eudora

"

"

133

5,500

Dousman

"

Milwaukie

130

5,500

Home

"

L. Sandusky

127

5,500

Stranger

"

Milan

121

5,500

Troy

"

Conneaut

122

5,500

Wolverine

"

Near Detroit

97

4,500

Chauncey

"

Silver Creek

80

3,000

Etna

"

"

90

3,000

Mariam

"

"

53

2,000

Oceana

"

"

50

2,500

Emma

sloop

Ashtabula

42

2,000

______

______

Twenty-five vessels

4,212

$241,500

The vessels enumerated are those which have entered our port during this season, and of which there is authentic record. How many more have been launched upon the upper lakes and put in commission there we cannot say.

The large investemnet in new vessels - we allude now to sail craft only - indicates the prosperity of lake commerce and the increasing agricultural developments annually making west of us; and taking the two previous seasons with the present, we sum up the following increase to the lake tonnage:

1841

Vessels.

Tons.

24

2,600

Cost, $130,000

1842

Vessels.

Tons.

17

2,435

Cost, $124,000

1843

Vessels.

Tons.

24

2,662

Cost, $161,500

Although this city cannot lay claim to building many of the vessel recently put into commission, she can notwithstanding boast of having altogether the largest amont of tonnage enrolled of any port upon the lakes. In Congressional document 220, just issued, the following table is found, exhibiting the aggregate tonnage of all the districts embraced within our observation, on the 30th Sept., 1842. They are -

Buffalo

tons 17,198

Detroit

11,736

Cleveland

6,871

Sandusky

2,861

Erie

2,820

Miami

1,272

Mackinaw

587

Total

48,345

The same document contains the number of vessels built in all the districts of the state of New York, in the year ending on 30th September, 1843 - they were as follows: 6 ships, 8 brigs, 17 schooners, 131 sloops and canal boats, 22 steamers; total 184 vessels, the aggregate of which was about 20,241 tons. During the same period, Ohio built -- including the steamers at Cincinnati -- tons of shipping. - Buf. Adv.

Media Type:

Text

Newspaper

Item Type:

Clippings

Date of Original:

Dec. 27, 1843

Local identifier:

GLN.5284

Language of Item:

English

Donor:

Dave Swayze

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